Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-18
The Largest and Cheapest List of
Business and Residence Lots, Houses and Lots, Stores, Bio
Property in the City:
Do not Buy Ore Foot ofG Ground until you seeo our property W. will do GU
Once at WIN. Richaidss Grocery store. East SIDE lain st. Sy Austin Mnnn
Folsom has the Celebrated Clam G
gar for sale. Try it.

Folsom has the Celebrated Clam CT |
gar for sale. Try 1t.
Everybody turn out to the inspection
Of 60. G, Friday night
Over q draw load of wall paper just
received at Giles & Shepherds, and it is
the finest lot ever brought to Austin. If
you do not believe it, just come in and
ookit yer for your self.
Drop in and see that Wall Paper that
Giles & Shepherd have to show you. A
splendid assortment to select from and
if you cannot be suited you are hard to
please.
"A. Folsom will move his Novelty
Store across the street to the corner store
in the Mason block this evening. He
will remain there until the building now
occupied by him a be repaired.
-J.W. Thompson, the oldest locomo-
tive engineer in the United States, was
buried at Mason City, Iowa. Thursday last.
MI. Thompson ran q construction tram
while the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul road wa being built westward from
Mason City. On the completion of tie
Austin branch he ran the first train over
it, and has W since remained as pas.
senger engineer on this branch until taken
with his fatal illness. He was n of the
best engineers in the employ Of the COM
pany.
No. 1, Vol. 1, of the Methodist Her
aid. a weekly published at Minneapolis
and St, Paul. is IN our table. r. n.
Young is managing editor, assisted by
Revs. s. G. Smith, Phi. D.. W. K. Mar
shall, D. D., Rob't Forbes. D. D. C. A.
Van Anda, D. D., s. B. Warner. F. o.
Holman, w. Mckinley, D. D.. J. L. Pit
ner, F. J. Wagner and Levi Gilbert as ed
torial contributors. The aim of the edi-
tors is to make a religious family paper
for members and friends of the NJ. E.
church in the northwest. Its first num-
beragives promise of a paper that will be
widely taken and read in its new field.
Parties have been busy circulating q
petition demonstrating against the re-
moval of the post office to the proposed
site in the Mcclellan block. A telegram
was sent by Austin parties to the postal
authorities, Saturday, requesting that
proceedings be stopped until the petition
ers could be heard in the matter. In re-
spouse to this a telegram came on re-
questing Mr.. johnson tt wait for futher
ADVICE. He was already to move Satur-
day evening. but waited further orders.
Monday morninq the word came, move,
and accordingly, when Tuesday morning
came the P. o. was in McClelland block.
We are all good walkers up this way and
relish a little trip to the post Office, but
we do not wish to deprive our south end
friends of a little healthy exercise for too
long a time, so we say. take your turn
now and come up to our side of town for
a change.
About twenty years ago G. H. Dav-
idson took a Mexican bond for fifty dol
lars in payment for Advertising. For
several years he supposed that he had
something that was valuable as a curiosi.
ty, rather than anything else, those bonds
being quoted at / or 2 per cent. Recent
ly however, Mr.. Davidson, learning from
his New York correspondents, that there
was a movement on foot at Mexico to re.
deem the bonds of that issue, opened q
correspondence with q firm of bankers al
the city Of Mexico. This was carried
on with some difficulty, as the Mexican
letters we're in the Spanish LANGUAGE and
the Interpretation thereof was not to be
found at every corner. With the aid Of
our versatile friend, Herman CUM
enough Of the meaning was dug out tx
get good idea Of the contents. Tit
final letter from Mexico containeda draft
nicely written in Spanish with all the de
lightful twists and turns Of q foreign
government, in favor Of Oh. Davidson
for 5000 in q. IS. money. Thus IS pa
thence rewarded, even in 9 neWspape
man